Comments on: Rainbow endorses Prop. 37

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:58:32 +0000

This is actually completely false. There are dozens of Israeli products at Rainbow. They have never boycotted those products you’re just recycling misinformation.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:54:33 +0000

^^ this

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:10:05 +0000

What the hell are you talking about, thanks? I’m not here to defend china, or even defend Rainbow. I’m just here to call you a mendacious dirtbag for trying to equate objecting to the policies of the Israeli state (or, for that matter, objecting to Zionism at all) and objecting to Jewish people in general. Cuz that’s some high-octane bullshit you’re slingin’ right there, son.

By: thanks

thanks — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:49:13 +0000

sorry, is it verboden for me to ask a question here?

By: Cranky Monkey

Cranky Monkey — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:33:48 +0000

Actually, in this one case, he has am extremely pertinent question that any habitual Rainbow customer might be well-advised to consider.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:25:11 +0000

Why don’t you just ask Rainbow? We’ve dealt with enough of your bullshit here already.

By: thanks

thanks — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:01:51 +0000

i’m sorry ‘herr doktor deth’ please break it down for us why the human rights violations and military actions in Israel are worth boycotting but those occurring in China are not.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:21:07 +0000

It’s worse than that, even.

Anti-Zionist is not the same thing as Anti-Jewish.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Seriously. It’s like saying if you don’t like the current president you’re against America. Complete fucking idiocy.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:45:44 +0000

Pff. Not supporting Israel does not equate to hating jewish people. Claiming otherwise is deeply disingenuous at BEST.

By: lucy

lucy — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:02:46 +0000

I just moved to California and when I first heard of this bill I thought “great, an opportunity to improve science literacy and dispel a lot of nonsensical fears about genetic engineering”. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to have happened at all. Probably it’s our (biologists) faults for not finding a way to explain the concept sufficiently clearly, but surely journalists, who know they don’t have the technical or medical expertise to make these judgements, can share some blame when they go ahead and write things like “Much more testing should to be done, especially focusing on long term effects” anyway.

Fortunately there are some folk trying to step in. A really great organisation aiming to improve science literacy published this guide to equip the general public to better deal with sensational reporting on GM: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/resources.php/9/making-sense-of-gm

If this bill does pass at least the big agricultural companies might have a financial incentive to find a way to explain GM to the general public. Then all the people who voted against it will have their fears dispelled and everything will be fine anyway.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:44:16 +0000

I’m not sure how I’m going to vote on Prop 31 and 35. I need to do more research.

By: thanks

thanks — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:58:52 +0000

one of the dark secrets of the progressive left is that they have just as many bigots as the right. everyone likes to hate someone, hating Jews has never gone out of fashion.

By: thanks

thanks — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:38:00 +0000

that little bubble you live in must be nice Chris, room for one more in there?

By: delicate fleur

delicate fleur — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:17:26 +0000

So you defend your statement “anyone who’s anyone at the FDA was once an executive for one of the companies on the left side. The FDA is, in general, a corporate shill” by listing ONE person who now works at the FDA who formerly worked for not Monsanto, but a law firm that represented Monsanto. Despite the fact that I am “shutty at the internet” it didn’t take too long to find out that Michael Friedman no longer works for the FDA, Linda Fisher no longer works for the EPA (and never worked at the FDA), and obviously Clarence Thomas never worked there. Obviously there are people at the FDA who have formerly worked in the food and pharmaceutical industries, but that is very different from saying that it is entirely run by industry shills and therefore completely lacking in credibility.